Think what you could build and design and invent and create with six billion hours of human economic activity.

Are we condemned to a race to the bottom in which corporations end up paying essentially no share of our national revenues?

Health care consumes about 18 percent of America's GDP right now, and the closest country is at about 12 percent.

I think we all recognize that when, in the Eisenhower administration, we took a national move to high-speed road and built a national highway system, it was one of the best things ever done for our economy.

It would be great to have also a high-speed rail moment, and there is no place that is more important than in the Northeast.

You have been to Rhode Island to visit Senator Reed and myself and you are aware of our circumstances, how difficult the State budget is there, how difficult our unemployment situation is there.

We were the leader in the world... and now it is clearly over in Asia.

This new clean energy market is a rapidly emerging market and it is also a potentially enormous market.

Another potential win big seems to me to be turning what is presently nuclear waste into nuclear power.

We have the potential of a very significant wind turbine farm going in offshore.

I do not see much in the way of focus here on middle schools.

It is both/and with a bias, and it is the bias that concerns me.

It risks crowding them out because of the priority.

I do not see good news around the corner.

Does it make sense for the hospital orderly to be paying a higher Federal income tax rate all in than they do?

They are not doing it.

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